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Clayborn Is Shedding Weight

June 6th, 2011

The Bucs’ first-round pick, manbeast defensive end Adrian Clayborn, continues to tour the local radio airwaves and returned to the Buccaneers’ flagship station today on The Ron and Ian Show, co-hosted by former Bucs guard Ian Beckles on WDAE-AM 620.

Beckles and Clayborn had an exchange about adapting to the NFL when Beckles seemed to assume Clayborn would be trying to add weight to his frame, which was 6-3, 281 pounds at the scouting combine.

Clayborn set him straight.

Ian Beckles: You’re probably going to have to change it up a lot because that bull rush is going to get old about the second quarter because you’re playing against 350 pound men. Have [the Bucs] said anything to you about your weight. You’re listed here at 281. Do they want you to come at that weight or maybe a little bit heavier?

Adrian Clayborn: Oh, no. I’m getting down a little bit more. I’m at 278 right now. I trying to get down at least to 275 by training camp. I’ve heard horror stories about losing weight [at training camp], but I don’t think I’ll have any problem with that.

Joe’s not sure what to make of Clayborn looking to drop weight entering training camp. Perhaps the Bucs and other NFL teams at the combine told him they wanted to see him add speed.

It’s only six pounds in Clayborn’s case, which is probably meaningless. … Or not.

Regardless, Clayborn will have his hands full in practice with Donald Penn lined up in front of him and chewing his ear off.

Hopefully he is losing fat weight over muscle. He is a chunky dude, so I don’t think losing 5 or 6 pounds of fat is going to hurt his strength at all. If anything he is probably going lose about 10lbs of fat and gain 4 lbs of muscle, which I don’t think anyone has a problem with.

I agree that it’s more a question of muscle verses fat because fat becomes dead weight that the muscle has to haul around. I think Clayborn will be just fine and I’m anxious to see him play, along with Bowers, GMC & Price.

The kid is a talent no matter if he is 20 lbs smaller…were lacking alot of things on the d-line side i dont think it hurts at all that hes trying to make a splash at gaining some speed!! Hopefully this damn lockout lifts and he can gain 10-15 in muscle!!! Its gonna be a bad ass line come 3 years when you line up claiborne,price,mccoy,bowers…..so waiting for that day!!

I think it will be good for him to practice against Penn. There is no way Clayborn is gonna bull rush Penn but it will be a good test to see if Penn will be able to keep up with Clayborn coming around the edge.

@Leighroy — You can always kill the audio immediately by scrolling over the video ads and clicking stop or pause. …Joe doesn’t have control over those specifically, unfortunately. A company out of New York feeds them in there here and there occasionally and mails Joe a check every month.

@Charlie – Unfortunately they won’t do anything about it. Joe asked back in November when it was an issue for a couple of days. If it were endless videos, Joe would drop them, but that’s not the case thankfully. Joe needs the money to run the site, mostly to buy his time to devote, time that doesn’t have to go to the real job.

The difference you’re talking about, Joe, is so small on a guy that large. In my eyes, this is another example of the excessive amount of worry we give to metrics like football players’ weight (or, my personal nemesis, 40-yard dash times). If a guy drops six pounds in an off-season, suddenly he’s playing “lighter.” I’m the same height as Clayborn, and I gained six pounds in boot camp. It’s really not that much difference, and I weigh about 100 pounds less than him.